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Just because a book won a prize doesn't make it worth reading. Still, it's a reasonable guide—something makes it unique, or a cut above, or important, or just plain fun.

You won't find everything on each of these lists in our catalogue. Some of them we've specifically decided not to carry (usually due to content, availability, or pertinence), but many we just haven't got around to bringing in.

As for the adult-level literary prizes, you'll see our selection is weighted toward works originally published in English. This is due to no prejudice on our part, but to the simple fact that we can't carry every important book ever written. No bookstore can, not even a certain establishment just north of us with pretensions to that claim.

At any rate, these are mostly books to just browse through until something takes your fancy. A lot of the specifically awarded titles are by generally-loved authors, and we often have multiple books by such writers.

If there's anything we don't have that you really think we should, let us know. We're open to expansion, and if we haven't got there already, we're more than willing to have someone else point the way.

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	Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton from Charles Scribner's Sons for 10th-Adult 1921 Pulitzer Prize winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton from SeaWolf Press for 10th-Adult 1921 Pulitzer Prize winner in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW) $9.95
	Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin from Atheneum for 5th-Adult 2023 Caldecott Honor Book in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC) $19.99
	Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington from Grosset & Dunlap for 9th-Adult 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	America Is Born A History for Peter #1 by Gerald W. Johnson from Yesterday's Classics for 7th-12th grade 1960 Newbery Honor Book in History Spines & Surveys (Location: HISRF-SPINE)
	Audubon by Constance Rourke, illustrated by James MacDonald from Harcourt, Brace & World for 7th-12th grade 1937 Newbery Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Black Potatoes Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti from HMH Books for Young Readers for 5th-12th grade 2002 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award in Great Britain / England (Location: HISMC-BRIT)
	Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder from HarperCollins for 9th-Adult 1928 Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $15.99
	Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder from SeaWolf Press for 9th-Adult 1928 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW) $6.95
	Caine Mutiny A Novel of World War II by Herman Wouk from Back Bay Books for 10th-Adult 1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $18.99
	Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Armstrong Sperry from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 8th-12th grade 1937 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $45.00 (1 in stock)
	Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman from Pantheon Books for 10th-Adult in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC)
	Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman from Pantheon Books for 10th-Adult in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Daughter of the Seine The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton from Harper & Brothers for 9th-Adult 1930 Newbery Honor Book in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
	Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Reprint from Anchor Books for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Family Romanov Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming from Anne Schwartz Books for 7th-12th grade 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book in Russia (Location: HISMC-RUS) $19.99
	Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley from Dial Press for 9th-Adult 2021 Newbery Honor Book in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis from Vintage Classics for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson from Picador for 10th-Adult 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell from Charles Scribner's Sons Romance for 9th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $20.99
	Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck from Reader's Digest Historical Fiction for 8th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Good Earth International Collectors Library by Pearl S. Buck from International Collectors Library Historical Fiction for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck from Penguin Classics for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, illustrated by James Hays from Reader's Digest for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3rd printing from Viking Press for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $24.00 (1 in stock)
	Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman from Ballantine Books for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman from Ballantine Books for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $8.99
	Hours by Michael Cunningham First Edition for 11th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Reprint from Atheneum for 8th-Adult 2003 Newbery Honor Book; 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI) $12.99 $7.00 (1 in stock)
	In Defense of Liberty The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman from Holiday House for 8th-Adult 2004 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in New Nation (1783-1800) (Location: HISA-18NN) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick from Penguin Putnam for 10th grade-adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00
	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri First Edition from Mariner Books for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	John Paul Jones Sailors Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison from Little, Brown & Company for 10th-Adult 1960 Biography Pulitzer Prize in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Killer Angels by Michael Shaara from Ballantine Books Historical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Killer Angels by Michael Shaara from Ballantine Books Historical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $9.99
	Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera from Levine Querido for 9th-Adult in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI) $18.99
	Late George Apley by John P. Marquand from Time Inc. for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Laura Ingalls Wilder A Writer's Life by Pamela Smith Hill from South Dakota State Historical Society Press for 9th-Adult in Little House Materials (Location: LIR-LHM) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $23.00
	Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington from Modern Library for 10th-Adult 1919 Pulitzer Prize in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Maus I: My Father Bleeds History A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman from Pantheon Books for 10th-Adult in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Reprint from Picador for 11th-Adult Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Monster Calls Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay Reprint from Candlewick Press for 5th-Adult 2012 Carnegie Medal in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $12.00
	Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $13.99
	Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway Library Edition from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Ordinary Hazards A Memoir by Nikki Grimes from Wordsong for 10th-Adult 2020 Robert F. Siebert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $19.99
	Savvy by Ingrid Law 10th Anniversary Edition from Puffin Books for 9th-12th grade 2009 Newbery Honor Book in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $9.99
	Sea Around Us by Rachel Carlson from Oxford University for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Sea Around Us by Rachel Carlson from Oxford University for 9th-Adult 1952 National Book Award (Non-fiction) in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne F. Staples Reprint from Ember for 8th-12th grade 1990 Newbery Honor Book in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $9.99
	Shutting Out the Sky Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 by Deborah Hopkinson 1^st edition from Orchard Books for 7th-12th grade 2004 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Immigration & Emigration (Location: HISA-20IM)
	Song of Robin Hood by Anne Malcolmson & Grace Castagnetta, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton from Houghton Mifflin for 2nd-Adult 1948 Caldecott Honor book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $22.99
	Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh from Charles Scribner's Sons Biography for 8th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Team Moon How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for 9th-Adult 2007 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, 2007 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Space Race & Exploration (Location: HISA-20SPR) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1^st edition from Vintage Classics for 10th-Adult Pulitzer Prize Winner 2007 in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00
	This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki from First Second for 11th-Adult 2015 Caldecott Honor Book in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC)
	This Promise of Change One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy from Bloomsbury Publishing for 6th-12th grade 2020 Robert F. Siebert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.99
	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 35 Anv from HarperTrophy Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $26.99
	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, illustrated by David Johnson from Reader's Digest Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Tombs of Atuan Earthsea #2 by Ursula K. Le Guin from Simon Pulse Fantasy for 7th-Adult 1972 Newbery Honor Book in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $9.99
	Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson from Macmillan for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Twelve Days in May Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner from Calkins Creek for 6th-12th grade 2018 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner in Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) (Location: HISA-20CIV)
	Watership Down by Richard Adams Reissue from Atheneum for 10th-Adult 1972 Carnegie Medal in Scribner Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SCRIB) $29.99
	Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Animal Stories for 6th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $19.99
	Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray, jacket and end papers illustrated by Kate Seredy from Viking Press for 9th-Adult 1936 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)

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